Teaching assistants at York University in Toronto are on strike after management cut 800 TA posts. TAs are essential for students; they are the ones who actually teach the courses and do the grading rather than the professor. The management are also not doing enough to make the campus safe for women. If these attacks go ahead they will affect everyone at the university – send messages of support to CUPE3903strikecommittee@gmail.com.
Education
Save Our Sixth Form Colleges!
Film length: 13:34 Sixth Form Colleges are under attack. The latest cuts mean almost a quarter of the funding for sixth form colleges has gone since 2010, and now new Government “Area Reviews” mean colleges […]
Education
HE strike: rally at London Metropolitan University
Film length: 6:47 Third day of national strike action for a decent pay rise and a living wage for all higher education workers. At a rally at London Metropolitan University, the pickets are joined by […]
Culture Sector
National Gallery Strike: Mark Getty hides from workers
Film length: 4:33 As workers at the National Gallery carry out their second 5 day strike against privatisation of the gallery and the victimisation of PCS rep Candy Udwin, the chairman of the board of […]